Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , co-operative R&D ventures may provide a forum in which firms learn to co-operate and collude with each on a wider basis , particularly if they create well-defined strategic groups that bring peer-group pressure to bear on each other whenever incentives to cheat appear . |
| 2 | Northgate was the only foreign mining company that made major attempts to raise capital locally in Ireland . |
| 3 | A corresponding study has prompted Silsoe researchers to suggest that using hydraulic motors to replace ptos will keep operators away from dangerous rotating shafts . |
| 4 | CHESHIRE 'S chief constable claims that planned new laws to cover travelling people are unworkable . |
| 5 | Apprehension was also voiced that allowing international organisations to create rights and obligations for member States could threaten the sovereignty of States , and undermine the basic principles of the international legal order , by elevating the legal status of international organisations . |
| 6 | Firstly , buy a good quality moisturising/conditioning mascara — avoid anything that has extra fibres to lengthen lashes . |
| 7 | A second option is the Databank Gold service , which is aimed at customers that want regular access to telephone number information . |
| 8 | Lairds , like Swans , was designated a Naval yard and therefore intervention fund and for the E E C. With the advent of the peace dividend , those yards , designated Naval yards can not compete with the merchant yards who receive the intervention fund , which is basically a subsidy that allows European yards to compete on a level plain with shipyards in the Far East . |
| 9 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |
| 10 | Yet at the same time urban policy in Britain has provided an escape clause that allows British politicians to avoid the implementation of race specific policies aimed at redressing racial inequity . |
| 11 | Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite . |
| 12 | Sergeyev has developed a machine that uses liquid crystals to recover such energy from the surface of these objects . |
| 13 | It did this through ratecapping , a system that allowed central government to dictate rate-calls set by some or all local councils , and by joint boards governing areas such as fire , police and transport , established as a result of the abolition of the metropolitan counties . |
| 14 | In this way the waterside environment was cleaned up and swans could once again safely sail along our rivers — a success story , though still a situation that requires regular monitoring to ensure that the new laws are enforced . |
| 15 | The major constraints which tenure conditions impose upon conservation programmes that discourage private initiatives to invest in conservation practices are short leases which tempt the tenant to remove as much plant material and nutrients as possible from the soil within the period of tenancy ; insecurity of tenants in longer leases ; uncertainty of compensation to tenants by landlords for conservation works at the end of the lease ; and a lack of an accepted means by which landlord and tenant can share these outlays in the first place ( Barlowe 1958 ) . |
| 16 | Enterprises that needed foreign exchange to pay for imports or for other purposes were then to make application to the banks , which were to determine the amount of each enterprise 's ‘ socially verified needs ’ , based on its use of foreign exchange in the previous year and its export performance in that year . |
| 17 | The bit of the UN charter that tells nosey parkers to keep out of other countries ' business is less respected than it was , as Saddam Hussein knows to his cost . |
| 18 | They go on to note that it is this feature of the market that necessitates detailed regulation to protect the interests of the shareholders , a principal objective of the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers being , for instance , to ensure a fair distribution of the take-over premium among the members . |
| 19 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 20 | The UAB provided a model that enabled central government to take over the functions of the poor law agencies . |
| 21 | What they got — and I hope they then choked on their own bile in the process — was a performance that enabled English football to hold its head high again . |
| 22 | It was only the proclamation , in the words of the head of the White armies , Denikin , of ‘ Great Russia , One and Indivisible ’ , as well as later Bolshevik efforts to rectify the situation , that persuaded Muslim nationalists to opt for Moscow . |
| 23 | It was the Kan Hua Hui , the ‘ Flower Fair ’ , a sweet , sprightly tune that took considerable expertise to play . |
| 24 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 25 | A woman like that 's a … one of those things that helps other things to get started ? ’ |
| 26 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 27 | In most cases it was the type of land , climate and length of winter that dictated possible options to crop . |
| 28 | But he 'll go on applying the skills learnt on those days in the Nottingham library to a wider cricketing canvas , and using that cast accumulated knowledge to enlighten others — not least the thousands of schoolchildren who visit Trent Bridge in parties each year : ‘ Last season we had several hundred children through on the day when Derek Randall needed one run to complete his 20,000 for the county — and I made certain they all knew about the landmark . |
| 29 | It was the contrast between Mexican and Chinese jades that stimulated European scientists to investigate their respective compositions . |
| 30 | Such consent would not be an answer to a charge of assault , and the policy reasons that forbid consenting adults to engage in fighting for the purposes of assault should apply equally in the case of an affray . |